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Hub City is a regional press that publishes books of literature and culture, with a special emphasis on works with a strong sense of place. Our publications committee reviews manuscript proposals in March and
September.
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Welcome to hubcity.org
The Hub City
Writers Project is a nonprofit organization in Spartanburg, South Carolina, dedicated to cultivating readers
and nurturing writers through its independent small press, community bookstore,
and diverse literary programming.
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Introducing our new writer in residence |
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The Hub City Writers Project is pleased to announce that
Jameelah Lang of Lawrence, Kansas, has been named 2009-2010 writer-in-residence
and will join three other visual artists in Spartanburg in June as part of the
HUB-BUB Artist-in-Residence program. Jameelah,
23, is pursuing an MFA in creative writing at the University of Kansas and will
complete her thesis in Spartanburg so that she can graduate and get her degree
in 2010.
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Jameelah is working on a collection of interrelated short stories
based on her experiences growing up as a Middle Eastern American in the
Midwest. The stories deal with what is lost, personally and culturally, in a
bilingual or multicultural family. Her mother is from Jedda, Saudi Arabia, and
her father, a native of Connecticut, is the author of two books on the Muslim
community experience in America. She writes fiction and creative nonfiction, often
blending in magical realism and folktales.
She is the
founder of the Bathtub Lawrence Writers' Collective , a group of young writers
which hosts readings at art shows, coffee shops, local bars and even public
buses. Like the Hub City Writers Project, the Bathtub Collective focuses on what it means to be a writer within a community. Jameelah herself has
spent most of her life living within a mile radius of her childhood home and
she says her mother "was very happy about this."
A former
valedictorian of her high school in Kansas, she speaks some German and Arabic, is an avid cook, and loves yoga.
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Writer in Residence
Jameelah Lang, a fiction writer from Lawrence, Kansas, is our 2009-2010 writer in residence. Click on her photograph to read her blog.
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